Chapter 2028

The condensed Taiji diagram merely spun once, and instantly transformed into countless illusory shadows that pressed down upon the blood-robed youth.

The blood-robed youth felt the surrounding air tighten, as countless immense forces surged from all directions, causing the blood-colored storm he had summoned to emit a muffled sound before bursting apart.

Under the spinning of the immense force, a massive vortex suddenly formed, swallowing the youth and the skeleton beneath him, threatening to tear them into countless fragments.

As the youth and the skeleton beneath him sank slightly, they found themselves unable to move even an inch from their original position.

"Oh no, it's the Profound Heaven Sacred Treasure!"

The blood-robed youth's face suddenly changed as he cried out in alarm, hastily hurling the black seal in his hand forward.

The seal spun rapidly, expanding to the size of a pavilion, and unleashed myriad black rays that slammed fiercely into the Taiji diagram.

With a booming sound.

The Taiji diagram trembled slightly, its surface light flashing, and it bounced the seal back, rendering it ineffective.

The blood-robed youth seemed not to have expected that single strike to break the restriction; letting out a low roar, he twisted his body swiftly and actually sank into the blood-colored skeleton beneath him.

In the next moment, the blood-colored skeleton's three skulls opened their mouths wide, respectively spitting out a black talisman, a purple jade pendant, and a ball of blood-colored light.

As soon as the three objects appeared, they simultaneously exploded with a muffled sound, transforming into a stream of black demonic energy, a mass of purple rosy light, and a bunch of blood-colored fine threads, which all plunged into the skeleton's body.

Instantly, three different-colored strange demonic patterns appeared on the surface of the blood-colored skeleton, spreading across its body; after a painful cry, its body suddenly swelled to several times its size, straining to break free from the surrounding immense forces, while the six dark magic weapons in its hands swung fiercely toward one point.

A flash of black light, and a long-handled weapon resembling the Cover Moon Blade instantly condensed and emerged.

The blood-colored skeleton's six eyes flashed with green light, revealing a fierce gaze; its six crimson hands simultaneously gripped the long handle of the magic weapon and slashed fiercely at the Taiji diagram in the sky.

A black blade light over a hundred zhang long flashed across the sky like a slash, passing through the Taiji diagram in an instant.

The Taiji diagram paused, and a faint black trace suddenly appeared in its center, then silently split apart, actually being cleanly severed into two pieces.

Feeling the surrounding immense force suddenly reduced by more than half, the blood-colored skeleton rejoiced, its blood light flaring as it prepared to soar and escape.

But at that moment, the silver-haired elder and the gold Zen master Jin Yue simultaneously opened their mouths without a word, each spitting out a mass of essence blood, then pointing into the void, transforming into streams of blood mist that vanished into nothing.

The originally severed two pieces of the Taiji diagram suddenly began to hum loudly, within which several unfamiliar auras suddenly emerged, and they flashed and overlapped together.

A flash of light, and the split Taiji diagram instantly recombined as before, then began to rotate once again.

Just as the blood-colored skeleton's massive body transformed into a blood rainbow and soared over ten zhang high, it was "boomed" upon by the reappearing immense force, which pressed down hard upon it, once again binding it in place.

The blood-light incarnation hidden within the blood-colored skeleton, seeing this, was furious beyond words; without hesitation, it swung its long-handled magic blade like a wheel, madly chopping through the air without cease.

One after another, dim black blade lights, like black dragons soaring into the sky, continuously chopped and shattered the Taiji diagram.

But no matter how sharp and fierce the blade lights were, the Taiji diagram merely needed a flash of rosy light to instantly restore itself, tightly entangling the blood skeleton and preventing it from escaping even slightly.

The cost of this, however, was that the silver-haired elder and the gold Zen master at the original spot continuously stimulated their essence blood power to desperately activate this treasure of the Taiji diagram.

As they spat out essence blood, their flesh and blood withered and shrank at a visible speed, appearing utterly desperate.

The blood-robed youth, hidden within the blood-colored skeleton, was shocked to the extreme; his thoughts raced, he gritted his teeth, and suddenly the four arms among the six in the skeleton burst open with a tremendous sound, the bone fragments wrapped in a blood mist, which then condensed behind the skeleton into a pair of vast, blood-misty bone wings.

The skeleton's remaining two arms each formed different hand seals; under the furious flapping of the massive wings, the originally motionless body trembled slightly, and actually rose into the air once again.

All this seemed complicated, but it all happened in the time between lightning and flint.

However, the blood-colored skeleton's action was clearly somewhat too late!

With a sound of breaking through the air, the golden-colored giant eagle, condensed and transformed by the swarm of gold-devouring insects, finally flashed and shot straight toward the blood-colored skeleton's back, fiercely grabbing it.

"Not good"

The blood-colored skeleton's three skulls shook violently and let out a loud cry; it hastily swung its long-handled magic blade at the golden giant eagle, while simultaneously flapping its massive wings behind it without regard for magic power, doubling its escape speed.

But unfortunately, it was now under the cover of the Taiji diagram; even though it had transformed into a mass of blood light and fled swiftly, its escape speed was still incredibly slow compared to what it should have been.

And when the golden giant eagle was struck by the dim black blade light, it immediately exploded with a bang, turning into myriad golden flowers that scattered downward.

Only to see points of golden light flashing wildly, after which the blood-colored skeleton let out a miserable cry and was instantly submerged by over ten thousand gold-devouring insects.

Every inch of its body was covered with fist-sized golden-colored beetles, emitting a gnawing sound; from afar, it made one's hair stand on end.

Even though the blood-colored skeleton was an incarnation formed by the Blood Light Sacred Ancestor using a strange treasure, within the insect swarm it still emitted continuous shrill, miserable cries.

Under the simultaneous devouring of over ten thousand gold-devouring insects, the speed of consumption was simply shocking to hear.

In merely a few blinks of an eye, the skeleton's body, as hard as gold and stone, had already lost nearly half of its mass, and it seemed that in just a moment more it would be completely devoured.

Seeing this, the silver-haired elder and the old monk at a distance instantly rejoiced.

"Indeed, it is the mature form of the gold-devouring insects; it is thanks to Daoist Han that he could once activate so many of these vicious insects." The elder spoke with a joyful expression.

"What Daoist Han says is indeed correct. This once-only Sacred Treasure bestowed by Lord Jian Shao Li, it seems, was used at the right time. Fortunately, I refrained from using it earlier; otherwise, I could not have caught this demon off guard." Master Jin Yue also relaxed his expression, extremely delighted.

At this moment, after a few flashes, Han Li appeared beside the blood-colored skeleton, yet he merely tucked his hands into his sleeves and twitched them slightly, showing no expression at all.

At the same time, within the blood-colored skeleton, the blood-robed youth hiding inside had a face full of panic, like an ant on a hot pan.

Seeing the blood-colored skeleton shrink to just several zhang in size in the blink of an eye, no longer able to protect the blood-robed youth within, he suddenly gritted his teeth and abruptly formed a hand seal with one hand.

A tremendous, earth-shaking roar came.

After the blood-colored skeleton's remnant body flashed with strange blood light, it suddenly exploded into a mass of blood-colored light halo; under the rolling air wave, it instantly blew away all over ten thousand gold-devouring insects.

However, among these gold-devouring insects, over a dozen had their bodies flashing with golden light, and they actually treated the air wave as nothing, advancing instead of retreating; with a flash, they shot like crossbow bolts onto the exposed back of the blood-robed youth, baring their fangs and biting fiercely.

These were precisely Han Li's dozen or so candidate gold-devouring insect kings.

Each of these insect kings possessed divine abilities nearly equal to those of a late-stage Void Refinement cultivator; having been secretly released by Han Li earlier and mixed into the insect swarm, their nearly identical aura allowed them to evade the senses of the Blood Light Soul Transformation, and they truly succeeded in a single strike.

And as the blood-robed youth felt a sharp pain pierce his heart and lungs, he knew his very life depended on this moment; he immediately cried out, ignoring the dozen or so gold-devouring insects behind him, and instead transformed into a streak of startled rainbow, shooting outward from within; with a flash, he sought to escape the range of the Taiji diagram's enclosure.

Han Li witnessed this scene, yet his face showed not the slightest trace of panic; on the contrary, his eyes flashed, revealing a hint of strange color.

In the next moment, in the void ahead of the blood rainbow, a faint golden light flashed, and over a dozen pale golden beast shadows suddenly appeared in a strange manner, simultaneously accompanied by a burst of countless claw shadows.

After a burst of explosive sound, those dozen or so beast shadows trembled and shot backward, their light scattering as they re-condensed into a single pale golden strange beast, clearly appearing outmatched.

Yet within that blood rainbow, a loud cry suddenly rang out; the blood-robed youth's escape light paused.

But in that very moment of delay, the insect swarm that had been blown away immediately let out a cry and surged forward again, completely enveloping the blood-robed youth's true body.

A miserable cry erupted from the blood-robed youth's mouth; as he hastily formed seals, rolling blood winds and strands of black demonic energy erupted from his body surface, howling and raging nonstop in the vicinity.

But no matter what divine ability swept over his body surface, the dense swarm of gold-devouring insects clung to him like bone-boring maggots, refusing to let go in the slightest.

Poor this demonic holy ancestor's incarnation, even though his body was filled with demonic arts, but encountering these gold-devouring insects that were invulnerable to blades and spears, immune to water and fire, with no restraining treasures on him and his evasion techniques restricted by a strange treasure, he actually had no means of resistance at all.

In the blink of an eye, the blood-robed youth's entire physical body was completely devoured, not even giving his Nascent Soul time to escape in the slightest.

At this moment, the tens of thousands of gold-devouring insects only then let out a buzzing sound and scattered, transforming into countless golden flowers that shot back toward where Han Li was.

Han Li flicked his sleeve, and at once stored all the spirit insects within his body, then his gaze swept over the empty space beneath the Taiji diagram, and only then did his expression truly relax.

At this moment, the solidified Taiji diagram "Boom!" suddenly shattered into specks of spiritual light.

In the distance, the old man and monk manipulating this treasure simultaneously opened their mouths again, spitting out several clusters of essence blood, and the flesh on their bodies shrank another two degrees.

But after witnessing the blood-robed youth being devoured by the insect swarm, their expressions turned to extreme joy.

"Haha, excellent. This demonic fiend is finally dead. Fellow Daoist Han, was that demonic venerable also killed by your hand?" The silver-haired old man, despite his eyes dimmed with divine light, laughed loudly as he asked.

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